Rockies Notes: Scutaro, Betancourt, Reynolds

The Rockies have been scouting the Giants’ minor league teams, so a deal could be developing, Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle writes (Twitterlinks). The Giants asked about acquiring Marco Scutaro for bench help a couple of weeks ago and relievers Rafael Betancourt and Matt Belisle could also interest San Francisco, Schulman writes. Here are more notes on the 37-60 Rockies…

The Rays, Nationals, Rangers and A’s appear to have interest in Scutaro, along with the Giants. Heyman reports that the Rockies could either seek a highly-regarded prospect for Scutaro or accept salary relief and a fringy prospect.

Rockies insist on being a horribly run organization, only a few years ago they had a chance at a world series, the owner needs to blow up the front office, they dont wanna admit that this current team is a failure, start all over, just keep tulo, cargo, fowler and the catcher, pitching is horrible and every position player is replaceable. Get what you can for the marginal players you have.

3mil’s not that much in today’s crazy environment and obviously, the better the prospect, the more money the Rockies eat. Worth it as an all-rounder. You see this sort of guy go all the time at the deadline. The Scutaros and any halfway-decent LH relievers. Coin of the realm.

“The Scutaros and any halfway-decent LH relievers. Coin of the realm.”

Oh yeah.. a middle reliever, not any top one. Maybe not even a lefty, but one exactly like Mortenson that he went for in the spring to begin with.

Not any kind of a real prospect though.

Nothing against Scutaro. he is a tough and gritty ballplayer who is good with handling the bat, but he is on the downswing of his career big time, as proven by every one of his offensive numbers going down at Coors field from Fenway.

Scoot is the perfect trade-deadline guy. Solid D at 2nd, short, and 3rd. Respectable hitter. Good contact, uses all fields, low strikeouts. No long-term cash commitment. He’s the guy you go get when your guy’s hurt and you can’t have an infield hole. Would he bring Profar or Teheran? Of course not but he’s easily worth a solid prospect.

Just looked over the Giants minor league affiliates. I think the Rockies would do well to come away with either Chris Heston or Clayton Blackburn for Scutaro. Rox need arms, but can’t expect much just for Marco.

I’d have to agree. Especially since the claim is the Giants only view Scutaro as “bench help”. The Rockies probably missed out on getting a slightly better return from a team like Detroit that truly needed an everyday upgrade at 2B. At this point, it seems that Oakland is the best fit for Scutaro.

I dont feel like the A’s should make a move for scutaro due to his age and that he is only under team control for the rest of this year. Not only that but he is 36 years old which doesn’t fit the A’s mold. I feel like Billy should go after a long term option at shortstop, that can stay with the A’s for several years. We don’t have many shortstops in our farm system currently, except for addison russell who still has several years to go before he reaches the major league level. I feel like we should make a move at starlin castro or yunel escobar. I would like yunel over scutaro because hes still somewhat young (29) and under team control for a while. Hanley would’ve been a good fit, but we didn’t want to pay him that much